Category: Conferences

Tomorrow, we are officially taking the wraps off the program and initial speaker lineup for our B2SMB Summit, which is taking place Oct. 3-4 at two locations in Chicago’s Loop: 1871 and Revel Fulton Market. We started working on the event early this spring. Dave Walker, chairman at bizHive and a longtime marketing leader, had […]

GoDaddy Chief Product Officer Steven Aldrich has learned a lot about marketing to SMBs in his tenure at the 20-year-old company, which has greatly expanded its offerings from Domain registration to a wide range of SMB needs, including websites, email, marketing, online commerce and bookkeeping. At the end of 2016, Domain registration represented just half […]

The large pure-plays are focused on things like Artificial Intelligence and messaging bots to boost and scale their customer interactions. But where are SMBs in all of this? At Street Fight Summit New York City last week, several panelists suggested that SMB bots can be useful, but need to carefully built and managed in a […]

We’re looking forward to taking part in a StreetFight’s first flagship event since Brandify bought Streetfight in February. Streetfight’s promotions proclaim it the “Best Streetfight Summit ever.” It is taking place in The Weylin, a historic bank building two blocks from “The Sonny Rollins Bridge” in Williamsburg (note: there is a campaign to rename the […]

For all those that say that selling and engaging SMBs is critical but has to “scale”…here’s an exciting and unique new event on Business-to-SMB sales solutions. Powered by our friends at BizHive and sponsored by Business.com, The B2SMB Summit (Business to SMB) takes place Oct. 3-4 in Chicago at 1871 Accelerator (Precon) and Revel Fulton. […]

MarTech –Marketing Technology — takes all the social and commerce developments we’ve sometimes called “Web 3.0,” and put them under one roof. It takes into account not only ads, click-throughs and promotion — AdTech — but content and experience, social and relationships, commerce and sales, data and management. What does it change? Potentially everything. During […]